On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: > Hi, > > I guess this issue must have been brought forward long time ago, but I > still hope you can consider under Windows (during installation): > > 1. put R's bin path in the PATH variable of the system so that we can > use the commands "R" and "Rscript" more easily; > > 2. remove the version string like R-2.13.0 in the default installation > directory, e.g. only use a directory like C:/Program Files/R/ instead > of C:/Program Files/R/R-2.13.0/; I know many people just follow the > default setting when installing R, and this version string will often > lead to many (unnecessary) copies of R in the system and brings > difficulty to the first issue (several possible bin directories); > > I'm aware of some existing efforts in overcoming the difficulty of > calling R under Windows like the R batch files project > (http://code.google.com/p/batchfiles/), but I believe this is better > to be solved in R directly. >
Although I have some misgivings about this just to be sure we have all based covered I have placed an R package called cmd in the batchfiles download area (go to http://batchfiles.googlecode.com and click on download tab). Install the package and then every time you wish to use R.exe, Rscript.exe, etc. start up R and run library(cmd) cmd32() # or cmd64() and it will spawn a Windows console session with the appropriate path variable set. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel